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The Puritan view of death: attitudes toward death and dying in Puritan New England
Holubová, Petra ; Procházka, Martin (advisor) ; Robbins, David Lee (referee)
The Puritan attitude toward death in seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century New England was ambivalent and contained both terror at the possibility of eternal damnation and hope for deliverance. The joyful theme of the migratio ad Dominum resonated with the Saints only at times when they were convinced divine grace was actively working in their lives, but when they saw they were backsliding, the horror of death prevailed. Puritan anxiety about death was caused by tensions inherent in the doctrine of predestination, which implied man's dependence on God's inscrutability, and in the doctrine of assurance, which implied that self-doubt was more desirable than full assurance of salvation. What complicated any verification of the presence of grace was man's endless potential for self-deception. Memento mori gave urgency to the Puritan work ethic and the effective use of time. The anxiety about one's destiny began in early childhood when death and its ensuing horrors for the depraved were used as a means of religious instruction to provoke spiritual precocity and conversion. This early immersion into the discourse about death has been erroneously interpreted as a proof of the non-existence of childhood in Puritan New England. Deathbed scenes depicted in Puritan spiritual biographies were designed as examples...
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Returns to the nature
DUŠKOVÁ, Lenka
Returns to the nature In the theoretical part the work is focused on a short presentation of some important prehistoric monuments, and the visual impression which the artworks of our ancestors leave on a present man. It endeavour to do exoteric confrontation between prehistoric art and modern art. The image part of this work is based on "a game" individually-up to dated subjects and a hidden notation placed in the scenes, which are inspirated by our ancestors who were materialized in absolutely different conditions surroundings than we are.
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First developmental stages of advertising in traditional media
Kesl, Jakub ; Vošahlíková, Pavla (advisor) ; Sekera, Martin (referee)
The first developmental stages of advertising in traditional media Jakub Kesl Abstract Diploma thesis "The first developmental stages of advertising in traditional media" deals with the commercial use of media in its first forms and handles the evolution of advertising communication in conjunction with the development of media. Traditional media - print, radio and television in the period starting with emergence of these media until the point of establishment of advertising as their more or less apparent part were selected as a purpose of this study. This thesis tries to answer following questions: How did the advertising in traditional media in the first moments of its existence form and evolve? How did the first developmental stages of media advertising look like? What was the reaction of the audience to new forms of media advertising? How did enter of advertising into the media influence them and their contents or how did the media influence the ads? Attention is paid to forms of impact of advertising to media and their contents and forms of impact of media on advertising, and describes the types and forms of commercial messages in traditional media in its infancy. The work is primarily concerned with the first stages of development of advertising in the countries, where the development of print,...
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Transformation of army press after 1989, demonstrated on the newspapers "Obrana lidu" and other papers published by "Naše vojsko"
Vávra, Robert ; Köpplová, Barbara (advisor) ; Halada, Jan (referee)
Thesis "Transformation of military periodicals since 1989 (for example Obrany lidu and other titles of Naše Vojsko)" discusses the armed services press after 1945, and captures his transformation, inter alia, to reflect changes in the overall social situation during the next decade. The method of work is a historical analysis. This thesis is primarily focused and deals with the establishment of periodicals and the way of state institutions controlling, especially the Ministry of National Defence and the Chief political administration. The aim is to create an overview of army press and, by selected periodicals, to monitor changes occurring during their existence. Attention is also devoted to economic production company - Naše Vojsko (Magnet-Press). This thesis also reflects the transformation of army press which came after the events of November 1989 and which brought a massive reduction in army press. The text is given more attention to newspapers and magazines, the development of more reflective of social change in our country such as in Obrana lidu, Lidová armáda or Československý voják, more narrowly focused than the professional military journals. This thesis uses in addition information from various newspapers and magazines, archival materials from the National Library in Prague,...
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Comparative analysis of council's magazine Praha 1 and the Pražan magazine
Kohoutová, Lucie ; Kocourková, Lucie (referee) ; Křeček, Jan (advisor)
Bachelor thesis "Comparative analysis of council's magazine Praha 1 and the Pražan magazine" deals with two magazines distributed to citizens of Prague 1st city district - the magazine published by city council and the magazine published by Věci veřejné, political party in opposition. The aim of this thesis is to compare preferred topics and image of townhall leadership and political opposition provided by the magazines in question, by means of the content analysis method. In the first part the terminology, related papers, law context and main problematic features of the council magazines are introduced, followed by description of serials (for which working title "opposition serials" is used) that stand and write against city councils. The following practical part first describes all involved institutions, local actors and the analyzed magazines including their production background. Content analysis of issues published between april 2009 and april 2010 is central to this thesis as it brings answers to the research questions: 1. which topics are the most salient in the analyzed magazines; 2. how often and in which context is portrayed the townhall leadership; 3. how often and in which context is portrayed the townhall opposition; 4. to which extent the magazines cover the same topics and write about each...
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The conceptual designs of conversion lens for the OptoNS equipment
Pintr, Pavel
The company Elmarco uses a classical commercial objective with a focal length of 200 mm for a detection of shape of Taylor´s cone. This system displays a scene with the horizontal size of 23 mm and doesn´t show a scene with a required detail. The commercial solutions don´t exist for the long working distances of 550 mm. We prepared optical solutions of conversion\nlens and the one solution of a main objective. These optical solutions should fulfill required optical parameters.
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A Linguistic analysis of francophone reggae
Chodaková, Polina ; Duběda, Tomáš (advisor) ; Štichauer, Jaroslav (referee)
The thesis deals with the language practices of French-speaking reggae singers. The work investigates how Jamaican musical inspiration came to the French scene, and which phonetic, morphosyntactic and especially lexical devices are found there. An inseparable object of research, equally undescribed, was the vernacular of francophone reggae fans. The empirical part investigates a random sample of French reggae (approx. 50 thousand words). The songs differ geographically, chronologically (1979-2010) and musically (roots, raggamuffin, dancehall). The research not only focuses on popular and colloquial French, slang, urban language, musical influence or poetry, but also on the coherence between themes and functions fulfilled by francophone reggae. A list of neologisms shows preferences in lexicogenic processes. Furthermore, the method includes a web survey answered by 189 French-speaking reggae fans, who represent the 'new speech' community. As a result, the hypothesis of a new vernacular, independent from rap, is confirmed. The specific hybridity is defined by code switching and more than a hundred English and Jamaican borrowings, which are commonly used by the fans.
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Generation of 3D presentation from floor plan designer
Slančík, Milan ; Pelikán, Josef (referee) ; Žára, Jiří (advisor)
The aim of the thesis is to design and implement an intuitive 3D presentation from a given 2D floor plan. Initial 2D plans are created by an existing floor plan designer. Such a plan needs to be extended in order to add further information necessary for a 3D presentation (e.g. viewpoints, height of the walls, windows/doors position and dimensions) and is followed by an export to the appropriate 3D environment. Floor plans are represented by an XML file. XSL Transformation is then applied to the XML file to create an X3D output describing the scene. A proper X3D browser is then used for a real-time presentation of and smooth navigation in the scene.
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Reform of the electoral system in Ukraine 1990-2012
Lakei, Iryna ; Prorok, Vladimír (advisor) ; Lupták, Milan (referee)
This thesis is focused on analyzing the reforms of the electoral system in Ukraine, during the period from gaining independence to the present. The main goal is to determine the reasons of the electoral reforms, and which political entities have become initiators of those changes in case of (non) existence inherent factors. The hypothesis of the thesis is whether political entities sought to maintain or strengthen its position in the Parliament, rather than contribute to the improvement of the electoral process.
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Experimental and Theoretical Comparative Study of Monolayer and Bulk MoS2 under Compression
del Corro, Elena ; Morales-García, A. ; Peňa-Alvarez, M. ; Kavan, Ladislav ; Kalbáč, Martin ; Frank, Otakar
Recently, a new family of 2D materials with exceptional optoelectronic properties has stormed into the scene of nanotechnology, the transition metal dichalcogenides (e.g., MoS2). In contrast with graphene, which is a zero band gap semiconductor, many of the single layered materials from this family show a direct band-gap in the visible range. This band-gap can be tuned by several factors, including the thickness of the sample; the transition from a direct to indirect semiconductor state takes place in MoS2 when increasing the number of layers from 1 towards the bulk. Applying strain/stress has been revealed as another tool for promoting changes in the electronic structure of these materials; however, only a few experimental works exist for MoS2. In this work we present a comparative study of single layered and bulk MoS2 subjected to direct out-of-plane compression, using high pressure anvil cells and monitoring with non-resonant Raman spectroscopy; accompanying the results with theoretical DFT studies. In the case of monolayer MoS2 we observe transitions from direct to indirect band-gap semiconductor and to semimetal, analogous to the transitions observed under hydrostatic pressure, but promoted at more accessible pressure ranges (similar to 25 times lower pressure). For bulk MoS2, both regimes, hydrostatic and uniaxial, lead to the semimetallization at similar pressure values, around 30 GPa. Our calculations reveal different driving forces for the metallization in bulk and monolayer samples.
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